Bert Sakmann

Information about Bert Sakmann

Bert Sakmann (born June 12, 1942) is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and invention of the patch clamp. Bert Sakmann is Professor and director of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany.

Born in Stuttgart, Sakmann enrolled in Volksschule in Lindau, and completed the Wagenburg gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1961. He studied medicine from 1967 onwards in Tübingen, Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Munich. After completing his medical exams at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, he became a medical assistant in 1968 at Munich University, while also working as a scientific assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Assistant) at Munich's Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, in the Neurophysiology Department under Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt. In 1971 he moved to University College, London, where he worked in the Department of Biophysics under Bernard Katz. In 1974 he completed his medical dissertation, under the title Elektrophysiologie der neuralen Helladaptation in der Katzenretina (Electrophysiology of Neural Light Adaption in the Cat Retina) in the Medical Faculty of Göttingen University.

Afterwards (still in 1974), Sakmann returned to the lab of Otto Creutzfeldt, who had meanwhile moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Sakmann joined the membrane biology group the in 1979.

In 1986, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Erwin Neher co-winner of 1991Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine .

In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.

In 1991 he received the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine together with Erwin Neher, with whom he had worked in Göttingen.

Sakmann is the founder of the Bert-Sakmann-Stiftung.

External links

 •  • [ e]
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureates
Baruch Blumberg / Daniel Gajdusek (1976) • Roger Guillemin / Andrew W. Schally / Rosalyn Yalow (1977) • Werner Arber / Daniel Nathans / Hamilton O. Smith (1978) • Allan Cormack / Godfrey Hounsfield (1979) • Baruj Benacerraf / Jean Dausset / George Snell (1980) • Roger Sperry / David H. Hubel / Torsten Wiesel (1981) • Sune Bergstrm / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane (1982) • Barbara McClintock (1983) • Niels Jerne / Georges Khler / Csar Milstein (1984) • Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein (1985) • Stanley Cohen / Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986) • Susumu Tonegawa (1987) • James W. Black / Gertrude B. Elion / George H. Hitchings (1988) • J. Michael Bishop / Harold E. Varmus (1989) • Joseph Murray / E. Donnall Thomas (1990) • Erwin Neher / Bert Sakmann (1991) • Edmond Fischer / Edwin G. Krebs (1992) • Richard J. Roberts / Phillip Sharp (1993) • Alfred G. Gilman / Martin Rodbell (1994) • Edward B. Lewis / Christiane Nsslein-Volhard / Eric F. Wieschaus (1995) • Peter Doherty / Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1996) • Stanley B. Prusiner (1997) • Robert F. Furchgott / Louis Ignarro / Ferid Murad (1998) • Gnter Blobel (1999) • Arvid Carlsson / Paul Greengard / Eric Kandel (2000)
June 12 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

  • 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath.

..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1910s  1920s  1930s  - 1940s -  1950s  1960s  1970s
1939 1940 1941 - 1942 - 1943 1944 1945

Year 1942 (MCMXLII
..... Click the link for more information.
Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
..... Click the link for more information.
Physiology (from Greek: φυσις, physis, “nature, origin”; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms.
..... Click the link for more information.
';
George Richards Minot, ';
William Parry Murphy, "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"[31]
1935 Hans Spemann, '' German Empire "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"[32]
..... Click the link for more information.
Erwin Neher (born March 20, 1944 in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria) is a German biophysicist.

In 1966, He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US. He spent a year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and earned a Masters Degree in Biophysics.
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1960s  1970s  1980s  - 1990s -  2000s  2010s  2020s
1988 1989 1990 - 1991 - 1992 1993 1994

Year 1991 (MCMXCI
..... Click the link for more information.
Patch clamp technique is a technique in electrophysiology that allows the study of individual ion channels in cells. The technique is used to study excitable cells such as neurons, muscle fibers and the beta cells of the pancreas.
..... Click the link for more information.
The Max Planck Institute for Medical Research is a medical research institute located in Heidelberg, Germany. It was renamed from Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in honour of the German physicist Max Planck .
..... Click the link for more information.
Heidelberg
Castle and "Old Bridge"
Coat of arms Location

..... Click the link for more information.
Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
..... Click the link for more information.
Stuttgart
Stuttgart Schlossplatz (Castle square)
Coat of arms Location

..... Click the link for more information.
Lindau

Coat of arms Location

..... Click the link for more information.
For the type of building, see .
A gymnasium (pronounced with /g-/ in several languages) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools
..... Click the link for more information.
Stuttgart
Stuttgart Schlossplatz (Castle square)
Coat of arms Location

..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1930s  1940s  1950s  - 1960s -  1970s  1980s  1990s
1958 1959 1960 - 1961 - 1962 1963 1964

Year 1961 (MCMLXI
..... Click the link for more information.
Tübingen
Tübingen Altstadt from the St. Georg Stift.
Coat of arms Location

..... Click the link for more information.
Fribourg/Freiburg im Ãœechtland. For other uses see Freiburg (disambiguation)

Freiburg

Coat of arms Location

..... Click the link for more information.
Berlin

Flag Coat of arms

Details
Location of Berlin within Germany / EU

Coordinates
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Administration
Country
..... Click the link for more information.
Ville de Paris

City flag City coat of arms

Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur
(Latin: "Tossed by the waves, she does not sink")

The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro.
..... Click the link for more information.
München
Munich
Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple
Coat of arms Location

Details

..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1930s  1940s  1950s  - 1960s -  1970s  1980s  1990s
1965 1966 1967 - 1968 - 1969 1970 1971

Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII
..... Click the link for more information.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), also known as LMU, is a university in Munich and, with almost 47,000 students, is the biggest university in Germany.
..... Click the link for more information.
Neurophysiology is a part of physiology. Neurophysiology is the study of nervous system function. Primarily, it is connected with neurophysiology and also to with neurobiology, psychology, neurology, clinical neurophysiology, electrophysiology, ethology, neuroanatomy, cognitive
..... Click the link for more information.
University College London, commonly known as UCL, is the oldest multi-faculty constituent college of the University of London, one of the two original founding colleges, and the first British University to be founded on a non-religious basis.
..... Click the link for more information.
Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies the theories and methods of physics to questions of biology.

Biophysics research today is comprised of a lot of specific biological studies, which don't share a unique identifying
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1971 1972 1973 - 1974 - 1975 1976 1977

Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV
..... Click the link for more information.
Electrophysiology is the study of the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues. It involves measurements of voltage change or electrical current flow on a wide variety of scales from single ion channel proteins to whole tissues like the heart.
..... Click the link for more information.
The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute) in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 730 people work at the institute, 370 of them are scientists.
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1976 1977 1978 - 1979 - 1980 1981 1982

Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins.

..... Click the link for more information.

This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the wikipedia encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.